A Theo Jansen´s mechanism

[lfranssen100]

What are the dimensions that you used for this simulation?

[Perbacom]

Hammertime !

[PotadoTomado]

Woah, awesome!

[LukeMaximoBell]

Great Simulation!! Where did you get your proportions?? Please help :)

[nightkraawler]

but what are the measurements ?

[nightkraawler]

genius , when I saw theos machines, I was wondering about the inner workings, you have the answer, great work.

[ralph3163]

I liked the way you had the loci of key points in the linkages showing - thank you for your effort!

[Maarttttt]

perfect music

[Chemi4001]

EPIC WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­111111111

[damotimus]

I want to recreate this in a two four legged version, two sets of two with me in the middle, to kind of create a spider type look

[23456irene]

me podriais explicar como se hace este proyecto .

[masteryodadobby]

Smooth jazz will now be deployed.

[yoshiman641]

The spiders want me to tap dance

i don't want to tap dance

[lococris091]

sirve mucho muy buen diseño me sirvio para un proyrcto de tecnologia para la base de un caballo movil jajaja bn muy buen diseño de theo jansen

[McDave1312]

genius

[neverquit250]

If you were to add 3 more legs you should get the same results.

[ZoeMarks]

This won't work well as the centre crank should not be on the same plane as the leg axles. I have a copy of the original Theo plans which shows this small detail.

[janixus]

that music like a music backwards

[mickvv]

てんさいやな

[Smartcamster]

Awesome vid and nice music. Helped me alot recreating it with Lego.

[knut124]

Shit ...

[pinkfloydbeatles]

Theo Jansen + Philip Glass.

Wow

[heterogeneoushuman]

We had one of these once but we forgot to feed it so it died.

We feal an eternal emptyness for the loss of it.

One day we to will die but the pain will live on for ever.

[WhatGypsyLike]

@dwyllie I am trying to re-create a wooden model of Theo Jansen walking mechanism. How important is it to have sets three legs? Would a small model, attached to a motor, become unbalanced with only two?

[dwyllie]

@WhatGypsyLike I do not think that you really need three pair of legs. I believe that you may check other concrete examples on YouTube. For instance, see

blog.makezine.com/archive/2008­/07/build_kinetic_horse_sculp.­html

[mattbellza]

@dwyllie You need the 3 legs to replace the use of a wheel. It won't work otherwise.

[Prankster10001]

@WhatGypsyLike the more the merrier, the less sets you have the more wobbly it is i tried with two but it kept falling over :(

[dfghjzx]

@WhatGypsyLike I'm pretty sure that you need three legs for it yo act like a wheel or to be stable.

[chsxtian]

@WhatGypsyLike this comment might be a bit late, but it will be unstable on 2 sets, because an object needs at least 3 resting points to be able to stand still.

[Azulmine]

the way it moves is kind of sexy

[djnunnelly]

its so elegant 

[mangaluli]

what is thet program you using to create this?

[DChighQ]

its very simple, but it takes a geometric genius to spot the potential in how you can't manipulate the angles of a triangle and you can manipulate the angles in a square.

[tenforce]

this is fuckin awsome

[Foxicola]

hey, do you know about sodaplay? It's just that I remade this structure on sodaconstructor (physics sim application) .

[dwyllie]

@Foxicola I do. It's great.

[SrQuasar]

@Foxicola With two pairs i think is enough, you need to leave an space between...

[Minhduc1190]

wish youtube had a replay button

[morningstoner666]

completely off topic but:

what's the name of this song?

[dwyllie]

@morningstoner666

massman by philip glass

[brunobmx4u]

amazing!

[lestersole]

Measurements?

[artrysa]

[*]

[pinktux777]

Sweet.. brings back memories of taking geometry! Such a cool mechanism.

[meesterschilders]

placed into my playlist of Theo Jansen, thanks

[Kriegerdammerung]

Oh thats a Protoss Dragoon

[Blacklemon67]

Is there anywhere that I can find the measurements for each segment?

[robbertzzzzz]

It's not that hard to see. First, there is a turnig rod on top, with a rotating segment mounted onto it.

There are two traingles attached to it, with an angle of about 70 degrees, and two rods of equal length. The other side has two rods of equal length, one of them is part of a traingle with two equal sides and an angle of 90 degrees. The other is part of a perfect square. The lengths of te base triangle are not important; a longer leg equals walking faster, but too long means not enough power.

[Blacklemon67]

thanks man :D

[zzytrewq]

@Blacklemon67 - still need the dimensions? I have a drawing.

[DinoHarryBrooks]

@zzytrewq i need them for a model im making Plz

[zzytrewq]

@DinoHarryBrooks - send me an email address to my personal messages and I'll flick you a copy. Cheers

[InfinityWarsoul]

@zzytrewq hey if you still have the diagrams could you send me one please im doing a project about this. Thanks

[uhdoubleup]

no sillies there nothing mechanical. it works off of wind power. it is certainitly incredible.

[johnstarr2001]

@uhdoubleup Wind and gravity. I wounder if you off set some weight from the front then to center that it would walk? If so it could be made very heavy and run on low power? Attach a generator to produce electric power. It would have to walk in a circuit.

[uhdoubleup]

@johnstarr2001 well im pretty sure it can store wind power, in the tubes? geez i guess i really donmt know! its so awesome though, i saw this vid like 2 yearrs ago...i thought it would have made more of a splash...yes the gravity is the mc to its squared, iif ya know what i mean....

[marsidie]

this music's stuck in my head.. what is it?

[Yaaroslav]

How can it walk upsteps?

[NapalmCandy]

There is some software to simulate this movements? I want try to do some...

[dbrckovic]

You can try Golems Universal Constructor (google it) It's a 3D physics simulator.

[TheArtofBedHead]

Excellent analysis/simulation of Jansen's work. Thanks very much for sharing!

[Gairm]

That's beautiful! Well done! Thank you.

[theboombody]

Although this is impressive, I can't figure how it got so many views.  Do people regularly look up this mechanism?

[tld5500]

I have looked at it several times. It is similar to something I was building.

[emgeemann]

maybe its a popular stumble. plus once some videos start getting a lot of views quickly, they can get featured on the homepage which shoots the views up fast. or it may be linked to on a popular site. but yeah a surprisingly large amount of views!

[marksp]

Theo Jansen is quite famous. And this video illustrates quite nicely his contraption.

[exodus2142]

i do

[Kira12349]

looks like a guy with a mustach with the tracers

[klanky0stupid]

very interseting.

[smattman22]

its called a strand beast

[ErgeErik]

it's strandbeest in dutch, which means beach beast in english

[PrinceOfFunky1994]

woow

[cosmicconvergence]

that is sooooo cool, ive been thinking how to make something wlak, me being me, i thought of jcb hydrloic arms for legs, but its over complicated.

this looks really simple

[Ibly31]

Haha

[evmvb218]

haha im gonna make this in fantastic contraption

[larsie21]

=P, nice plan. i'm going to make it in little big planet

[Adambanddelish]

That's so easy did it yesterday!

[mrprofile101]

awesome lol

[conatcha]

Do you think it's easy to build one from cardboard or something like that?

[dwyllie]

Yes, why not?

[KanzlerM]

Shouldn't be hard at all.

Use shishkabob skewers or chopsticks for "bones", cloth or string for joints and tendons.

All of his mechanisms (that I've seen so far" are based on the same basic design.

[afghanmissy]

cool

[eleatski]

i built one on Phun!!! ill post it as a response! be sure to watch it!! :)

[Wasgehtyo]

i see mustache ಠ_ಠ

[elgogfisk]

i buildt it in phun

[dwyllie]

Cool. Post your video as a response. :-)

[PrometheusSD7]

I know the music is from Philip Glass, but I can't find the exact song this is. Anyone know? Thanks.

[zectortube1]

the song name is Massman, from naqoyqatsi album

[bubbs0643]

Genius design.

[wessellonus]

could I use this video in my own knex-walker-vid? please respond rapidly...

[dwyllie]

of course you can.

[A4TS]

could you explain how you used gsp 4 to create an animated object such as the theo jansen mechanism

[dwyllie]

I may send you the file, if you want.

[333Joint333]

awesome wow

[smarfling]

fuck yea, massman!

[tld5500]

Yes, I feel like an idiot for not knowing about this mechanism before I spent so much time working it out. How the hell would I know? But I suspect that I am a genius compared to you.

[tld5500]

Oh, damn, I was building a walking machine, much simpler than this, but similar. I should have known someone else had done it before. All these years wasted:(

[snoopy7393]

oatmeal always beats us to it

[fla3d]

Really great!

[boanhed]

Awesome video. Makes me think of "Wild Wild West" with Will Smith!

[th3soulreaper]

I kinda doubt this thing could walk over larger obstacles...

[xAstronomy]

Not yet it wont.. theo will help them ivolve to go past that xD

[baptistepcarrara]

dwylle, you like philip glass, i love his work

[MagnusCaprica]

it has 6 legs. just count....

[MagnusCaprica]

but can it move with only 4 legs instead of 6?

[sentinel12456]

it has 4 legs...

[KottonmouthSoldiers]

yes, it can... some of his creations use 48 legs... it can move with two if you balance it out right..

its just a new invention of the wheel.

[burningyoutuve]

genious work

[123MATTYABC]

stop at 0:21 and look a the left leg

this is a pretty good way to look at how to make it everything is parralell or in line perfect for making mesurements

[DOGGandalf]

Hey, I've tried making my own model and for some reason it doesn't seem to work out very well. From what I've heard, there has to be a certain relationship between lengths in each segment in the legs. Can someone fill me in as to what those dimensions are? Thanks!

[zzytrewq]

I have the dimensions if you are still keen.

Cheers

[DOGGandalf]

Certainly! Thanks a lot!

[zzytrewq]

Do you want to send me an email address so I can forward it?

Cheers

[zinc890]

coool.

[USAviator]

This is incredible,and i have to say I like the fit of Philip Glass' song, Massman to this. This very video actually got me into Philip Glass pretty significantly about a year ago or so.

[ELMOxELMO]

Hey what program did you use to make this?

[Tzake1]

The guy's machines are more natural than walking robots made in Japan!

[bonski2008]

doesn't this go against patent/copyright laws? great job btw.

[dwyllie]

It's just an academic study. I'm not making money with this. So many people are inspired by Theo Jansen. I think that he should be proud of this.

[Sup3rkirby]

simply amazing.

I am using this mechanism for a lego bot I am building. Should be interesting.

[chungdha]

Nice to see how it works might want to try it myself.

[jkjk3264]

wow first seeing the circle moving you would never think it could make something walk like that. props to whoever made that.

[farouqnimer]

what music is that in the background?

[dwyllie]

Massman by Phillip Glass (Naqoyquatsi)

[SpaceLana]

It's a perfect choice.

[razerdave]

I'm going to attemp to build this mechanism from K'nex, whouch ought to be challenging

[Kazbahn1]

i've decided just now that i'm going to make one out of lolly pop sticks =D

[thumper5555]

This reminds me of Sodaplay

[WelshieGuy]

im gonna try and make it on sodaplay! nice idea!

[28sphinx23]

This is all mathematics and physics baby!

[testuser564]

High Five!

[saloge]

high ten! :b

[APOYS]

genius !

[mene1in]

I wonder if there could be a way to allow these things to walk on surfaces more erratic than beach dunes.

[dwyllie]

I don´t think so... The surface must be almost flat.

[DerekNS74]

It would be very easy to design, but very heavy. If you made the end of every leg a hydraulic cylinder, and tied them all together, the fluid would be pushed from legs stepping onto higher surfaces, into legs that need the reach to get to a lower surface. The stroke of the cylinder would depend on the terrain. For rougher surfaces, you'd want to use longer cylinders. Air bladders would work too, but only to a certain length.

[Breadcleaner]

Those sculptures are so amazing, I was inspired to make a working model in Garry'sMod. I may upload it once it is done.

[Virgo719]

It's interesting to me how simple it is.

[xxGLhrMxx]

THX A LOT!

ill try to export this to Phun simulator

(if u dont know Phun, check my videos)

[chileyork]

got confuse with spanish...

[chileyork]

the geometry is the principle of life,everything is a geometrical form in diferent scales,the solar sistem looks like a nuclear sistem?electrons as a planets and the sun as a core.

[kunaiofdarkness]

dude y spelled system wrong

[Tidalias]

Dude, you forgot the last two letters in the word 'you'.

[yayser]

its easy..there lies the beauty..therefore it must have been hard for him to create..

[tcajunboy40]

If you e-mail Jansen, he will give you the dimensions and proportions. A few of us made a mini model of the CGI video and we are going to do an engineering project, but we are going to use steel as the primary material.

[Yakshinian]

From where did you get the measurements?

[ETP3]

yeah I've been searching the web all night trying to find the "eleven magic numbers"

[DerVampyrEngel]

Can this design be made walk sideways as well as forwards and backwards?

[dwyllie]

Yes.

[DerVampyrEngel]

Col I think I have the idea how to but not quite sure how would it be done then dwyllie?

[mrlowdangle]

some look lightweight

but that Rhinoceros one weighed over 3 tons!but still worked well powered by only the wind

nice vid,the movement looks very TJ esque!

[fedeparkour]

fucking genious

[ergoengan]

yeah but how do you stop it xD

[aarschgezicht]

I can never get enough looking at this.

[9ljiva]

beautiful.

[Pimdeflans]

beautiful

[tiberianfallout]

is there any friction in this process?

[thefrub]

There's friction in any movement. Anywhere in this design you see the angle changing, there will have to be a movable joint. You can see 11 joints in one pair of legs, so there's where the friction would be.

[blackXSpr]

i get it now. center circle is a long axle essentially, with blades on the end so the wind will spin it, this spinning turns the outside circle resulting in the motion. simply it compounds into a huge walking animal thing

[kaxer]

I'm from Spain and I've got to study and write down that mecanism equations for a subject at college...would anybody be so kind as to help me? I'll try to but I don't know whether I'll get it or no

[overwhelm4ever]

what is the name of the songg?

[mustgo206]

very cool must b a genius

wats givin it a push though?

[M0man]

Theo Jansen's sculptures are wind powered

[mustgo206]

dang that much force from the wind, he built it smart

[bourbakis]

Very cool!

[asp2021]

Brilliant!

[Ratboy8888]

frickin cool

[RabiaB]

Great, excellent choice of music!

[SlavaVB]

I want one that can go 200 mph

[biglumux]

volvemos a lo dificil.... de ser sencillo

[Vgtral]

art

[ShuleyvA]

amazing technologie...

[HomishBoy]

Turn down the volume